Mirror or Ship. Wisdom in the Fool’s Literature of the Early Modern Period

Abstract

This article concentrates on the early modern tradition of satire. Using the examples of Ship of Fools by Brant and The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus, two early modern conceptions of wisdom and foolishness are presented and compared.

Keywords

• Wisdom
• Foolishness
• Early Modern Literature
• Fool’s Literature
• Satire
• Erasmus
• Sebastian Brandt